Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).

Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets.

Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source - but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says.

Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices—that’s the highest in the world, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Device Essentials research in Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report 2011.

Claiming it was a name “that, frankly, we never really loved,” Lisa Belkin—the former editor of New York Times (NYSE: NYT) parenting blog “Motherlode,” and the new editor of the Huffington Post’s similarly named (and NYT-contested) parenting blog “Parentlode”—announced that the Huffington Post will change Parentlode’s name to one decided…

SAY Media, which in recent months has acquired Remodelista and Dogster and launched Jane Pratt’s xoJane.com, is expanding into the tech space with its acquisition of ReadWriteWeb. Dan Frommer, a former editor at Business Insider and author of the SplatF blog, joins as editor-at-large.

Hyperlocal content network Examiner.com is partnering with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media to provide exclusive content for CBS’s locally targeted properties in 25 cities.

As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone news apps. The newspaper’s new “Election 2012” political news iPhone app is free to download, but most of its content is only available to…

Add Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to the growing list of companies like Flipboard, Pulse and Scribd’s Float with news aggregation apps. Google quickly rolled out Currents, a free iOS/Android app, this afternoon after an All Things Digital leak, and several signs point to the fact that Google wasn’t quite ready for…

Which authors online keep readers coming back for more? Read It Later delved into its data to find which articles its 4 million users saved to “Read Later” most often, which authors have the highest return rate and how long-form content performs. (

After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggregators is now heading to the smaller screen.

As tablets become more of a increasingly popular household fixture, the companies that package content for the devices continue make their own upgrades. Flipboard, often seen as the top dog among news aggregation apps, recently added an iPhone app, multiple accounts and larger social media footprint. Meantime, some new apps…

Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial advisor.

Trapit, a discovery engine for Web content from the group behind Siri, launches to the public today. The company describes itself as “Pandora (NYSE: P) for everything else,” and believes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) searches and news delivery through social networks fail to offer users content that is actually important to…

In September, the Philadelphia Media Network—parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com—announced a special offer: The first 5,000 subscribers to its new newspaper apps would have the chance to buy a discounted Android tablet. Six weeks in, only about half the tablets have sold. Philadelphia Media…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched its long-awaited Livestand news-reader app Tuesday during an event at company headquarters, promising that the experience would be compelling to both readers and advertisers. It also took the wraps off a new iPad version of the IntoNow TV-companion application and shed a little more light on…

How do you know when a phenomenon like tablet news-reader applications has staying power? When the big guys jump in; and according to a report, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) are set to release their takes on socially oriented news-reading applications over the next few weeks.

Hyperlocal startups in a crowded marketplace are testing new ways to stand out, and they discussed their strategies at the Street Fight Summit in New York City this week. Here are some lessons learned.

Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is launching a metered paywall on November 1. Starting that day, non-print subscribers who want to read more than 20 articles per month on the newspaper’s website or apps will have to pay.